group activities dream
There is a child on my train. He belongs to two of my friends, but they are not on the train. I take him with me.
We arrive at a camp where rows of children - the boys dressed like characters from Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, the girls dressed in red and yellow sacks - are performing slow-motion dance moves that are supposed to ward off diseases. I am told that children at this camp die of things like measles and influenza all the time.
Someone at the camp gets a phone call from another friend of mine, who went to Ballarat on the spur of the moment and so will not be coming to meet me. They relay the message, but I do not get to speak to my friend.
Later, I am supposed to take a group of people onto the sports field for practice. The game is like a cross between netball and American football. There is another group of people on the field already, and there is a tense standoff between me and their coach. It is clear that this is the beginning of the longstanding feud between the two teams which will be central to later episodes.
Someone is coughing too much to be allowed onto the field. We put his head in a bowl and leave it off to the side.
